Tip Toe

Tip Toe isn’t just sobering; it’s visceral and chilling viewing for all queer people and everyone who loves and supports us.

It’s a show that brilliantly, humorously and heartbreakingly acknowledges just how much harm queer people are experiencing in the age of disinformation.

Tip Toe is one of the most unsettling TV shows of the 21st century — and you absolutely must watch it.

It’s not perfect television, by any stretch, but, goodness, does Tip Toe have something to say.

We know where this is going and at times it feels as subtle as a brick in the face. But when Davies steps down from his pulpit and lets his characters breathe, his storytelling is visionary, devastating, passionate and humane.

Morrissey is terrific and terrifying across these five episodes, but Cumming is the star, a charismatic, complicated and subtly sad figure who transcends the broadness of Tip Toe’s plot.

It still lacks the discipline that made his other state of the historical/future nation pieces, Years and Years or It’s a Sin, so powerful and moving, but the strands begin to interweave, momentum builds and if the extremity of the conclusion still doesn’t quite ring true, everyone has worked hard to get it as close to authentic and emotionally credible as possible.